Thursday, January 3, 2013

Well it's that time again, time for the third annual year end awards. Just like the Oscar, Grammy and all the other silly award shows, I pick my favorite books that I have read this past year. The pickings are slim this year. Not because there was a shortage of good books, I just didn't read much this last year. Crazy I know!! But I was able to pick a few so here goes:

Favorite Gotta Read:

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The Shoemaker's Wife

Best Sequel

"The Hunger Games" Trilogy by Suzanne Collins

Best Book adapted to a Movie

"The Help" by Kathryn Stockett

Biggest Surprise

"The Homecoming of Samuel Lake" by Jenny Wingfield

Biggest Let Down

"The Casual Vacancy" by J.K. Rowling

(Guess I had too high of expectations from the author of Harry Potter)

Best Holiday Read

"Christmas On Ladybug Farm" by Donna Ball

(If your a fan of the Ladybug Farm series, then you will love this novella)

That's it...another year "in the Books!" (pardon the pun)﻿

For the New Year, I resolve to read more books in 2013 and stay away from the mindless television, and for you...

"﻿May you always have work for your hands to do.May your pockets hold always a coin or two.May the sun shine bright on your windowpane.May the rainbow be certain to follow each rain.May the hand of a friend always be near you.And may God fill your heart with gladness to cheer you"

About Me

Why the name cobwebb corner? I always find something better to do than clean the cobwebs from the corners of my house (usually reading). My passion is reading and I love sharing a good book with my friends. I also like to take pictures and do a good deal of boasting about my Grandson!

Followers

Combined E-Book and Hard Back Fiction Times Best Seller

INFERNO, by Dan Brown. (Doubleday.) The symbologist Robert Langdon, on the run in Florence, must decipher a series of codes created by a Dante-loving scientist.

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SECOND HONEYMOON, by James Patterson and Howard Roughan. (Little, Brown.) As he investigates the murder of a pair of newlyweds, the F.B.I. agent John O’Hara, last seen in “Honeymoon” (2005), is targeted by a serial killer.

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THIS MAN CONFESSED, by Jodi Ellen Malpas. (Grand Central.) The final book of the "This Man" trilogy finds Jesse Ward and Ava O'Shea preparing to marry.

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AND THE MOUNTAINS ECHOED, by Khaled Hosseini. (Riverhead.) A multigenerational family saga centers on a brother and sister born in Afghanistan.

UNSEEN, by Karin Slaughter. (Delacorte.) Will Trent of the Georgia Bureau of Investigation, working undercover as a motorcycle-riding ex-con in Macon, finds himself working on the same case as Sara Linton, the woman he loves.

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THE OCEAN AT THE END OF THE LANE, by Neil Gaiman. (Morrow/HarperCollins.) A middle-aged man recalls his lonely boyhood and his friendship with a remarkable girl.

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WORLD WAR Z, by Max Brooks. (Broadway.) An “oral history” of an imagined Zombie War that nearly destroys civilization.

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ENTWINED WITH YOU, by Sylvia Day. (Berkley.) Eva and Gideon face the demons of their pasts and accept the consequences of their obsessive desires; a Crossfire novel.

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MACRIEVE, by Kresley Cole. (Gallery Books.) The 13th installment of the Immortals After Dark paranormal series probes the deepest secrets of the Clan MacRieve.